Help with Action Groups failing on huge ship.

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

Assembling a mothership/multiship. Its Massive, Still in the VAB. Huge partcount. Action groups are coming apart. Going through every single component and every single button is too complex - almost not doable.

I would prefer not to mod the game. Is there some out-of-game .craft file editor that can help?

EDIT: Oh, and what's the thing that does the CAD drawings of the .craft files?

Edited January 30, 2015 by Brainlord Mesomorph

[Sirrobert]

There is mods, or do it as you're doing it now.

PS: an out of game editor is essentially also a mod

[Tank Buddy]

I don't know what you mean by "Action groups are coming apart", but I find that if I try to do something to crazy in KSP it just doesn't end up working out.

Kronal Vessel Viewer is the mod you are looking for: http://www.curse.com/ksp-mods/kerbal/224287-kronal-vessel-viewer-kvv-exploded-ship-view

[Red Iron Crown]

Not sure of the configuration of your vessel, but if you can break it up into smaller parts and action group them individually, the action groups will merge when you reassemble the ship. You will only have the usual ten action groups for the whole vessel, though.

[Claw]

I'm going to guess that you have lots of symmetric parts? At some point, the editor starts to disassociate symmetric children and you end up with the situation where you click on one of the parts, but not all the symmetric partners highlight.

If that is what you are running into, I did build a fix that fixes the disassociation (linked in my sig) but it's a mod. That is the only thing that it changes though. However, my fix isn't going to fix your already built ship.

Unfortunately, the only stock way around this is by clicking through each component. I am unaware of any external utility that does this. External utilities are more rare.

Cheers,

-Claw

[SaturnV]

You really made a lot fix. I hope that 'massive bug fix' in 1.0 includes all of them. Wait, have you ever contacted Squad and told them those bugs?